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bookworms (13)in #princes • 15 hours ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge - with the original illustrations #8/376
Therefore if it’s becoming and godly and righteous in the young princes (as it is at their ages) that they should be boys, they are and must be boys, and cannot by possibility be…
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bookworms (13)in #silence • 3 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge - with the original illustrations #7/376
“Silence sir!” returned his father, “what do you mean by talking, when you see people that are more than two or three times your age, sitting still and silent and not dreaming of…
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bookworms (13)in #haredale • 14 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge - with the original illustrations #6/376
“And that fifteen or twenty years ago stood in a park five times as broad, which with other and richer property has bit by bit changed hands and dwindled away—more’s the pity!”…
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bookworms (13)in #staring • 19 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge - with the original illustrations #5/376
Finding that his look was not returned, or indeed observed by the person to whom it was addressed, John gradually concentrated the whole power of his eyes into one focus, and…
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bookworms (13)in #prophecy • 23 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge - with the original illustrations #4/376
The evening with which we have to do, was neither a summer nor an autumn one, but the twilight of a day in March, when the wind howled dismally among the bare branches of the…
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bookworms (13)in #maypoles • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge - with the original illustrations #3/376
CHAPTER THE FIRSTINthe year 1775, there stood upon the borders of Epping Forest, at a distance of about twelve miles from London— measuring from the Standard in Cornhill*or…
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bookworms (13)in #popery • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge - with the original illustrations #2/376
But perhaps we do not know it in our hearts too well, to profit by even so humble an example as the ‘No Popery’ riots of Seventeen Hundred and Eighty.“However imperfectly those…
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bookworms (13)in #ravenless • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge - with the original illustrations #1/376
PREFACEASit is Mr. Waterton’s opinion that ravens are gradually becoming extinct in England, I offer a few words here about mine.The raven in this story is a compound of two…
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